todo is a basic shell script for bash (and probably other shells)
that manages a tiny file (by default, located at ~/todo) with your
important tasks. Todos are manipulated via the command line through
simple, easy-to-remember commands.
todoortodo listlists all of your todos,todo addadds a new todo,todo amendamends an existing todo, andtodo removeremoves the specified todo.
The file managed by todo is as simple as it gets. Each todo is written
to a new line. todo merely adds and removes lines to this file. If you
outgrow todo, it can be easily transported to other GTD applications, as long
as you're comfortable with a little file manipulation from the command
line. todo tries to save to the file ~/todo by default, but you can
change a simple variable in the source code to change this.
todo was inspired by and adheres to Douglas McIlroy's Unix philosophy:
- Write programs that do one thing and do it well.
- Write programs to work together.
- Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.
todo is my first foray into shell scripting. I hope you find it useful.
I tinker around with it sometimes. If you have something to contribute or
a bug to fix, don't hesitate to send a merge request!
todo is released under the
GNU General Public License.
Before installing, verify you have a Linux Standard Base-compliant operating
system, or at the very least: bash, awk, and sed.
Probably the best way to install todo is to create a symbolic link to it from
some directory in your preferred shell's PATH variable, like this:
ln -s todo /usr/local/bin/todo
Then you'll be able to use todo from anywhere.